Please don't anyone take this as an attack against religion, I'm asking because I am ligitimately curious. How did you become whatever you are as far as religion goes? Were you raised into certain beleif, was it a life experience that turned you too a certain religion? I know for myself it was my involvement in emergency services that ultimately turned me away from religion, what made you realize what religion was right for you?
wisdom
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I got to a place in my life where I felt I could not live any longer and I had a 2 year old so I also felt I could not do anything to myself that was harmful. So in desperation I called out to God for help and he heard me and shocked me by answering my prayer.
rainstorm614
As far as religion goes I became what I am with God. I was raised Catholic, much Christian influence but as my pleasures in life turned to more troubles I have paid better attention and been pushed and I push problems aside. Became more confused and overwhelmed, looking for answers. Seeing more lights. Everybody is different, let us put our differences aside. Celebrate life. Know there is both good and bad. Just behave. A witch is not a witch just some twisted traditions. Take away tradition and every religion becomes basically the same. I celebrate some catholic and Christian traditions still. I am great full to the Earth and every other spirit. Also I join Muslim party's when they party because they are my people and it is there tradition so lets celebrate. I am one with this world and will experience all that one can. I will live and learn, not lay my way of life on no man but express myself and only invite them to join me in my celebrations.
Anonymous
I grew up with religion. Throughout my life I always prayed and thanked God for everything even my pitfalls. I was a pushover to say the least, very naive and never took enough responsibility for my own actions as I was just thinking that I was falling into temptation and failing. Then in my late 20's I started to attend a bible study and the priest started talking about Jesus parables, like I had never heard before, they weren't cute stories to show teachings of compassion and love for your fellow neighbour, but quite the opposite. They were revelations of prejudice in the Pharisees and so forth and were questioning and debunking to the whole religious system, this is why they wanted to kill him, just as they would if he was around today. So it's quite ironic that a Catholic priest sewed the seed in me that led me to maturity, to grow up and start taking responsibility for my own wrongdoing. I am now in control of my own life and continue to learn and grow each day and am excited about being open minded about things that I just accepted as true. Once you get to where I feel I am, theres no turning back and I can say with 100% clarity that I will never search for the "right" religion ever again
Anonymous
Upbringing that allowed me to choose my religion, a many year stint in several Christian churches in which the precepts were taught all the time, yet no one seemed to hear them. Didn't sour me on the precepts, but it sure soured me on the followers.
Lots of reading and research into history and the history of religion made me realize that almost all religions have the same sets of stories - creation, flood, the sacrificed child of the main god, etc - led me to the realization that gods have been the construct of man based on need and place and time, and that further belief may have actually caused these gods not only to manifest, but transform throughout time. As long as somone believed in a version of this or that god, they would continue to exist.
I hold no religion - I believe all the gods that ever existed have a right to exist and deserve acknowledgement, but I don't worship any.
Rai A
My Parents both lectured in Micro-Biology at a local University. They were more cultural Presbyterians than anything else.
I spent all my High school in a Catholic (1 year) & an Anglican school. By the time I was 15 I realised just how similar both Roman Catholic & Church of England were. I got disillusioned by watching what was happening in Ireland because of two almost identical faiths.
As a teen, I read the bible - took me several years but I did read it. So I just called my self a Christian getting more & more disillusioned how even that wasn't acceptable by the "powers that be".